Care.com to pay customers $8.5M in FTC settlement for deceiving caregivers, families
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requiring Care.com, a platform for gig workers in the elder care and child care space, to pay $8.5 million in refunds for deceiving caregivers who were looking for jobs and making it difficult for families to cancel their paid memberships. The agency said
Read MorePalico is now the first FINRA-approved company to facilitate online LP-led secondaries deals
Limited partners selling their investment stakes in venture capital funds to other LPs on the secondary market is nothing new. But traditionally these transactions happen offline through an opaque network of brokers that could charge costly fees and prove prohibitive for certain LPs to participate. Palico is looking to change
Read MoreChris’ Corner: Gold Star CSS Bloggers
CSS still gives me the warm fuzzies sometimes. We’ve gotten so many amazing CSS features the past few years, that each alone makes me happy. But when those features are combined, I’m often stunned and get thinking about how we’re only scratching the surface of what is to come. Take
Read MoreNiantic aims to build a richer 3D map of the world with a new version of Scaniverse app
Niantic is releasing a new version of its Scaniverse app to let users capture objects around them with more details. Scaniverse 4 will allow users to capture places and objects in 3D through a Gaussian Splitting technique, which captures more data points about an object for accurate and rich representation
Read MoreApple iPhone 16 event set for September 9 with ‘Glowtime’ invite
Apple will unveil its iPhone 16 lineup on September 9, as the company has started sending out press invites on Monday for the upcoming event. The official announcement comes as previous reports had claimed that the event would take place on September 10. Apple is using the tagline “It’s Glowtime”
Read MoreBeam Mobility secretly deployed ‘phantom’ e-scooters in Australia and NZ to dodge fees and boost profits
Shared e-scooter startup Beam Mobility has placed hundreds of extra “phantom” scooters on city streets in Australia and New Zealand to avoid paying vehicle registration fees to local governments, according to a two-part report from The Australian. Cities place caps on the number of vehicles operators can deploy to avoid
Read MoreVariance matters more than mean in the extremes
Suppose you have two normal random variables, X and Y, and that the variance of X is less than the variance of Y. Let M be an equal mixture of X and Y. That is, to sample from M, you first chose X or Y with equal probability, then you
Read MoreThe biggest trends young NYC investors are bullish on — and why
As twenty-something-year-old investors enter the venture landscape, they spot new trends that could become the next multi-billion tech businesses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreTidal launches royalty tracking features for artists
Music streaming service Tidal has launched new features that let artists track royalties and manage their work on the platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreTechCrunch Minute: Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas robot shows off its push-up skills
When we mention Boston Dynamics, there are probably two things that come to mind: Cool robots and viral videos showing off what those robots can do. The latest video that the company shared with TechCrunch doesn’t disappoint on either front. It features the new Atlas humanoid robot dropping to the
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